Milo Warren Hall

HALL DAVIS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/22/2010 at 21:29:28

History of Woodbury County, IOwa 1984

Milo Warren Hall Family
By Sandy Leedom

Milo was the sixth child of Ira Elmer Hall and Lillie Belle Davis. Ira was born on May 29, 1878. Lillie was born December 23, 1881. Ira was the sixth of eleven children born to Dexter Alva DeHall (Hall) and Melissa Amber Myers. Dexter and Melissa were married on January 12, 1867, in Saylorville, Polk County, Iowa. Later that year, they moved to Mapleton where he later became marshall. At one time a man bought land from Dexter giving him an invention that turned out to be worthless. Some people say that in the late 1800’s Dexter changed his last name form DeHall to Hall. Having lived all their married lives in Mapleton, Dexter died at his home on September 28, 1910, and Melissa died there in 1931.

On December 7, 1899, Ira Elmer Hall married Lillie Belle Davis and on August 2, 1909, Milo Warren was born in Ute, Monona County, Iowa. Milo’s brothers and sisters are: Jennie, Elmer, Helen, Orville ‘Pat’, Irma, Louis, Dorothy, Ferne, Everett, Nina, and Wilda. Kenneth died when he was sixteen, in a hunting accident, and Elizabeth Ann died when she was a few days old.

In 1926, when he was seventeen, Milo worked out of Baker, Montana, helping to build the Yellowstone Highway along the Yellowstone River. Materials were shipped from Miles City, Montana, to the work site twenty miles away. When he was twenty-three, he started working as a farm hand on Maude and Wiley English’s farm outside Whiting, where he worked for fourteen years. Wiley died quite a few years ago, but Maude is still very close to Milo’s family.

When he was 33, Milo was to be drafted into the army, but during the exam the doctors fround out he had a vavular hart disease; one valve didn’t pump. The winter when he was thirty-four, Milo made $160 trapping and selling skins near Whiting.

In the 1940’s, Milo moved to Sioux City, Iowa, where he worked for awhile at Milligan’s Feed and Seed. When he was 36, he started to work at Johnson Biscuit Company for 50 cents an hour.

In 1945, Milo met Josephine Anna Mashek, the fifth of ten children born to George Paul Mashek and Sarah Ann Thompson. Her brothers and sisters are: Clarence, Florence, Elizabeth, Eileen, Loretta, Phillip, Dale, Elsie, and Alice, who died at birth.

Joseph was born May 23, 1925, in Kimball, Brule County, South Dakota, where she lived until 1945, when she moved to Sioux City with her sister, Loretta.

On February 10, 1946, Milo and Josephine were married in South Sioux City, Nebraska, by Judge Marsh. They live at 201 Sioux Street and have for twenty-two years.

Josephine worked for many years as a waitress. In 1951, Milo and Josephine ran a café called ‘Mike and Jo’s’, on the south corner of 4th and Wall Streets, in a building owned by Mr Bockleman. During this time Milo was still working at Johnson Biscuit and after twenty-six years of getting up at 4:30 in the morning, Milo retired at age sixty-two in 1971.

Milo and Josephine raised two children: a daughter, Sandra Kay and a son, Michael Ray.

Sandra was born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, on April 25, 1961. She married Alan David Leedom on April 4, 1981, at her parish, St Boniface, in Sioux City.

Michael was born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, on March 13, 1964.

He attended Everett Elementary School and West Junior High School. While attending West Jurnior he played drums in the band and was in a few parades for West High homecoming.

In 1981, Mike wanted to try it on his own, so he moved to Texas and worked at the Kirby Vacuum Company and some other odd jobs. Then he moved to Oklahoma and worked thre before moving back to Sioux City.

After working some odd jobs in Sioux City, in August 1983 Mike got a job at Bomgaars, in downtown Sioux City.